Weekly Rundown- Adjustments
Hello everyone! Again, it was quite a week. I’m still getting used to my daughter’s school schedule- she has before school band rehearsals several times a week, which impacts when we wake up and when I can work out. I think I have the hang of it now! And, I had to get used to my son being away at college. I should mention that I have an issue with endings. I get sad the day after Halloween. I hate it when the Olympics are over. So as you can imagine, it’s been hard for me to face the end of this phase of our lives, where my son was living at home full-time with us. BUT! Time really does heal all wounds, and after a week, I’m feeling much better. I still felt disorganized with my workouts, but I got something in every day. I’m linking up with Kim and Deborah for this weekly rundown. Let’s get started! Monday After last week’s disastrous lack of strength training (when I drove to Texas and back) I knew I had to do SOMETHING this day. I did Matt Wilpers Strength for Runners workout on the Peloton app. It was only 20 minutes but that’s much better than zero minutes. Tuesday I added a fourth day of running this week! Since this was the added day, I did a short two mile run. Before the run I did a yoga flow class. I’m determined to do more yoga and I thought this would be a good place to incorporate it. Well, I was wrong! Nothing bad happened, but a yoga flow class isn’t a great warmup for a run. It was too stretchy. Live and learn. After the run I did Becs Gentry’s 10 minute Core for Runners class. This is a nice, short one, and my favorite part is where she calls out “Aces!” as an encouragement. I’m going to start using that expression. Wednesday Three mile run. This was the first time since coming back from my hip injury that I’ve run two days in a row. It felt SO GOOD! When I only run three days a week, it seems like my body has to get used to running all over again every time. When I started this run my body was like “Oh yes, I know this- we just did it yesterday!” Thursday I did Becs Gentry’s 30 minute Strength for Runners class. I know- Matt Wilpers was probably very sad that I went to someone else. Besides being longer, I like this class better because there’s more single leg work. Sorry Matt. I meant to do yoga at night, but had forgotten about the Open House at my daughter’s school. Grr! Must get more organized! I’ve realized that vaguely hoping to do yoga three times a week isn’t going to cut it- I need to plan it into my schedule. Friday Three mile run. Again hoped to do yoga at night- again, failed. Saturday Nothing can stop me this time! I did Denis Morton’s 30 minute Power Yoga class in the morning and I loved it. LOVED. IT. It was reasonably challenging, worked my hips and glutes like I wanted, but didn’t have any weird yoga-y stuff that I can’t do. Know what I mean? I remember years ago I used to take a power yoga class at the Y, and it helped my hips so much. I only stopped because the teacher left and they stopped offering the class. Now I can do power yoga again, thanks to Peloton! This class even had some upper body work, so I felt mildly victorious about that. Sunday Six mile “long” run! Hooray! I tried a new thing, which was drinking a large glass of water with half a packet of LMNT in it before the run, and then had the rest of the packet afterwards. I think it worked well! I know I said I didn’t like LMNT, but my husband bought a whole box of the salted watermelon flavor so I decided to try it again. I still only like to drink half of it at a time, but this flavor is okay. Moving forward, I can see that I’m going to have to plan out my week more carefully. I always get all my runs in- it’s just everything else that can fall by the wayside if I’m not careful. And I need the “everything else” to keep me running! Those of you with kids- are you settled into the back-to-school schedule yet? Is it still hot where you are? – We’ve got a couple more months of summer ahead of us down here. But that’s okay- we’re used to it.